Upcoming Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	What Makes a City Grow Again: The Cases of Gdańsk, Cluj-Napoca, and Plovdiv	Mon, 24.03.2025, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Ognyan Georgiev		What Makes a City Grow Again: The Cases of Gdańsk, Cluj-Napoca, and Plovdiv Fellows' Colloquium with Ognyan Georgiev Mon, 24.03.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Ognyan Georgiev Series: Seminars and Colloquia If you could move and start anew, where would you go? For decades, people in Eastern Europe felt they had no choice but to move to the West in the hopes of a better life. This presentation will focus on three cities in Central and Eastern Europe—Gdańsk in Poland, Cluj-Napoca in Romania, and Plovdiv in Bulgaria—and analyze how they have managed to escape depopulation. Read more
What Makes a City Grow Again: The Cases of Gdańsk, Cluj-Napoca, and Plovdiv Fellows' Colloquium with Ognyan Georgiev Mon, 24.03.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Ognyan Georgiev Series: Seminars and Colloquia If you could move and start anew, where would you go? For decades, people in Eastern Europe felt they had no choice but to move to the West in the hopes of a better life. This presentation will focus on three cities in Central and Eastern Europe—Gdańsk in Poland, Cluj-Napoca in Romania, and Plovdiv in Bulgaria—and analyze how they have managed to escape depopulation. Read more
	Nationalisms Without Nations?	Mon, 31.03.2025, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Ondřej Slačálek		Nationalisms Without Nations? Fellows' Colloquium with Ondřej Slačálek Mon, 31.03.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Ondřej Slačálek Series: Seminars and Colloquia Ondřej Slačálek's presentation will discuss the contemporary rise of a variety of nationalisms that do not need to develop nations as a positive cultural project. He will, among others, address the question what—if anything—we can learn about contemporary European and Northern American nationalisms through a dialogue with classical theories of nationalism. Read more
Nationalisms Without Nations? Fellows' Colloquium with Ondřej Slačálek Mon, 31.03.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Ondřej Slačálek Series: Seminars and Colloquia Ondřej Slačálek's presentation will discuss the contemporary rise of a variety of nationalisms that do not need to develop nations as a positive cultural project. He will, among others, address the question what—if anything—we can learn about contemporary European and Northern American nationalisms through a dialogue with classical theories of nationalism. Read more
	The Great Russian Art Heist	Mon, 07.04.2025, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Yegor Mostovshikov		The Great Russian Art Heist Fellows' Colloquium with Yegor Mostovshikov Mon, 07.04.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Yegor Mostovshikov Series: Seminars and Colloquia For more than three centuries, the Russian Empire, USSR, and Russia have been routinely exploiting and appropriating Ukrainian culture. Currently, Russia is in the process of committing one of the biggest art heists since the Nazis looted museums and private collections across Europe. Up to 480,000 pieces have been either stolen or destroyed. In this Fellows' Colloquium, journalist Yegor Mostovshikov will discuss Russia's looting practices and crimes against art. Read more
The Great Russian Art Heist Fellows' Colloquium with Yegor Mostovshikov Mon, 07.04.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Yegor Mostovshikov Series: Seminars and Colloquia For more than three centuries, the Russian Empire, USSR, and Russia have been routinely exploiting and appropriating Ukrainian culture. Currently, Russia is in the process of committing one of the biggest art heists since the Nazis looted museums and private collections across Europe. Up to 480,000 pieces have been either stolen or destroyed. In this Fellows' Colloquium, journalist Yegor Mostovshikov will discuss Russia's looting practices and crimes against art. Read more
	The Global Right: A Challenge for Liberal Democracy	Sun, 27.04.2025, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Jan-Werner Müller Soli ÖzelGerold Riedmann	PURCHASE TICKET	The Global Right: A Challenge for Liberal Democracy Debating Europe Sun, 27.04.2025, 11:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Soli ÖzelGerold Riedmann Series: Panels and Discussions In this Debating Europe panel discussion, renowned experts in political science, sociology, and investigative journalism will discuss the strategies and mechanisms by which right-wing populist and authoritarian movements operate worldwide. They will also consider what tactics and strategy might be effective in countering this fundamental assault on democratic values. Read more
The Global Right: A Challenge for Liberal Democracy Debating Europe Sun, 27.04.2025, 11:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Soli ÖzelGerold Riedmann Series: Panels and Discussions In this Debating Europe panel discussion, renowned experts in political science, sociology, and investigative journalism will discuss the strategies and mechanisms by which right-wing populist and authoritarian movements operate worldwide. They will also consider what tactics and strategy might be effective in countering this fundamental assault on democratic values. Read more